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Build A Consensus On Budget For FY 2012
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 16, 2012: Chairman of the UCPN-Maoist Prachanda went to the residence of President of NC Sushil Koirala at Maharangunj in Kathmandu today morning to discuss the budget and other political issues to be settled. They discussed the new budget, an unity government to be formed, and whether to go to polls for electing a new CA or resuscitate the dissolved one, according to the state-run news agency RSS.
President Koirala as usual was not for the budget without a political consensus that had been elusive; he agreed to go to polls only if he would get the office of the prime minister.
Chairman Prachanda has been running after the political leaders to build a consensus on the budget for the FY 2012, as the partial budget passed for the four months has ran out on November 15, 2012. The government has no authority to use any money without passing the budget.
Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai has accused the opposition political leaders of holding the budget hostage for the ransom of meeting their vested interests, and warned them of their such action has been harming the country; so requested the opposition leaders to free the budget from hostage, according to nepalnews.com
Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai and Finance Minister Barshaman Pun visited the head of state President Dr Ram Baran Yadav today evening and discussed the budget passing through a presidential decree and building a political consensus on it but the president told them to build a consensus on the budget if they wanted a presidential decree on it, according to the state-run news agency RSS. However, every sensible person knows that building a consensus on the budget has been next to impossible.
